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Gavroy
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hi
i am on to understand when ships are in a stable position. now i found that this is directly linked to a quantity called the metacentric height?
there are two major forces, the gravitational and the buoyant force. and in classical mechanics when i wanted to find out the torque that results from two forces i looked at the distance between them and when they where parallel and equal in magnitude torque was given by D= r x F
for which reason do i look at this metacentric height, it does not seem plausible to me at all, can somebody say a few words about why you look at this distance and not the direct distance between the two forces?
i am on to understand when ships are in a stable position. now i found that this is directly linked to a quantity called the metacentric height?
there are two major forces, the gravitational and the buoyant force. and in classical mechanics when i wanted to find out the torque that results from two forces i looked at the distance between them and when they where parallel and equal in magnitude torque was given by D= r x F
for which reason do i look at this metacentric height, it does not seem plausible to me at all, can somebody say a few words about why you look at this distance and not the direct distance between the two forces?